QA Testing on Fedora 18 and Debian testing

[braddockcg]

Hi John,
We need testing for fresh installs of Fedora 18 and Debian testing. In particular, we haven't tested on Debian in months. One Laptop Per Child OLPC OS is based on Fedora 18 so it is important that works well.

Install Fedora 18 32-bit i386 under VirtualBox. When you have completed installing it, take a "Snapshot" before you do anything so you can test again later with the fresh install. When we release a new version we will want you to be able to test from the un-touched snapshot.

Attempt to install IIAB using Yum closely following the instructions in INSTALL.txt. Get the stand alone server running with the QuickStart Sampler Then follow the instructions in INSTALL.txt to install IIAB as a WSGI service under Apache.

Install Debian "testing" (not stable, which will probably have issues) under VirtualBox. When you have completed installing, take a "Snapshot" as before. Attempt to install the stand-alone server using the pip instructions from INSTALL.txt with the QuickStart Sampler. Then attempt to install as a WSGI service under Apache.

Check for performance issues with all installations. We have had some issues in the past with the load times of the wikipedia pages or the main page.

Thanks,
Braddock

[johnjkim]

How exactly can I test for performance issues? Do I just report the logs or just note where things seem to slow down, etc? I believe I'll have to present debug data.

[braddockcg]

Hi John,
For a first pass, just see if the site seems sluggish. If a page takes 4 seconds to load on your machine, it will probably take 20 seconds to load on the OLPC School Server, so that is too long.

For detailed timing information, if you are using Firefox, install the Firebug browser extension and look at the "Net" tab. It will tell you exactly what is loading and how long it is taking. But there is a learning curve to using Firebug, so I'd only recommend that if you are interested.

-braddock

[johnjkim]

I'm willing to learn firebug if it allows for more precision with data. I will report the results later.

[johnjkim]

Virtualbox installation of Fedora failed often this morning. Will try later today on terminal: sudo virtualbox
Then, I can go on from there.

[johnjkim]

SUCCESS!!! As of now, I have successfully installed Fedora 18 i386 on VirtualBox. I thank comment#16 from this thread for a solution: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817187#c16

[johnjkim]

Debian-netinst was a success! 👍

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